Long, long ago, Europeans discovered North America.  

    Led by a brave Spanish Explorer, Christopher Columbus, Europeans discovered America in 1492.

    Though this was not where Columbus thought he would end up, this would change everything that Europeans thought they knew about the world.....

    While Europeans were discovering more and more of North America, they also discovered a very different group of people -- Native Americans!

    One of the groups of people that they encountered were the Iroquois.  

The Iroquois were a group of Native Americans that lived in forests in the Northeast.

     Another group that they encountered were the Lakota.  These Native Americans were fierce warriors who travelled about hunting buffalo in the Mid-West region of North America.  

    They lived in homes they called tee-pees, that were made of Animal skins and wood.  

    Sometimes the Europeans and Lakota did not get along, but when they did, they would trade things like tools and weapons for animal skins. 

    In the very northwest region of North America, where the ground is frozen and covered in ice, the Europeans encountered the Inuit.  

    As they headed south, they encountered the Kwakiutl.  These were a people that lived in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. 

   Even further south, in the Southwestern region of North America, they encountered an artistic group of Native Americans known as the Pueblo. 

    Once the Europeans became familiar with the routes to North America, they began settling in the coastal regions.  

    Colonies began popping up all over the East Coast of North America, and with that - trade networks were created. 

    As the demand for goods from the colonies grew, the demand for labor grew...